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Mexican tourism is saved! Come visit the Swine Flu Boy statue... Mexican governor hopes statue will draw tourists!
You can cancel the Baja Expo... Mexico has already found its secret tourism weapon. I suppose if you're going to be famous as the host nation for
something- it might as well be for the swine flu?! I'm sure there is a "Home of Malaria" statue somewhere in Panama too. A tourist draw?... OMG-
totally SOS.
From Today's Union Tribune:
Edgar Hernandez, the Mexican kindergartner who is the first person known to have contracted the swine flu now circling the globe, may soon have a
statue erected in his honor in the mountain village where he lives.
Gov. Fidel Herrera of the coastal state of Veracruz said the statue of Edgar, 5, could help attract tourists to La Gloria, a poor village where
hundreds of residents came down with mysterious flulike symptoms beginning in late winter, in what experts say may have been the beginning of the
spread of the new influenza strain.
As of yesterday, the World Health Organization had tabulated more than 12,500 confirmed cases of swine flu, with 91 deaths.
The Mexican government has been pushing the view that the flu strain originated elsewhere and was brought to Mexico, which epidemiologists say remains
a possibility.
Herrera, an eccentric politician from the opposition Revolutionary Institutional Party, agrees.
He considers Edgar to be not "Patient Zero," the source of a global outbreak, but rather the Erst person in the world known to have survived the
virus. In an interview with local reporters Sunday, the governor likened the statue, which might be made of concrete or bronze, to the Manneken Pis in
Brussels, Belgium - the sculpture of a little boy urinat- ing in a fountain.
Edgar, a personable boy who wears his hair slicked back with gel, suffered flulike symptoms in early March but recovered after what his mother
described as a few listless days home in bed.
Later, when scientists began suspecting that a mysterious virus was spreading, his nasal and throat swabs were tested and Edgar was found to have had
the H1N1 virus.
Since then, television crews have been a fixture at Edgar's home, and Herrera has delivered a soccer ball to him and walked him to school.
La Gloria, where dirt roads outnumber paved ones, is about five miles from one of many pig farms in the area that Smithfield Foods Inc., the largest
pork producer in the United States, operates with a Mexican subsidiary. Residents of La Gloria have attributed their sickness to the pigs, but
scientists who have tested the pigs in recent weeks have found no evidence that they were the source of the virus. Smithfield had once proposed
putting a pig farm in La Gloria itself, but residents protested the move, and ill will between company and villagers remams.
Meanwhile, a Chicago resident has died of swine flu, the first death in Illinois and the 12th nationally from the illness, health authorities said
yesterday.
"With as many cases of H1N1 influenza that have been reported in Illinois, we have been concerned that there would be fatalities," said Dr. Damon
Arnold, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health.
The state lists 896 confirmed cases of the illness.
At least 46 countries have confirmed cases, according to the WHO. Puerto Rico reported its first case yesterday, making it the second Caribbean island
to confirm the illness.
[Edited on 5-26-2009 by Woooosh]
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DENNIS
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This has to be a joke.
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All hail the pig boy 
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Herrera is such an idiot.
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\"take what you can, give nothing back!\"
We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the
American people.\'
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
We can have no \"50-50\" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Woooosh
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajajack
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yes, it does leave most people speechless- doesn't it?
Other failed attempts to draw tourists (one or two may be fictional):
1. Swim with the crocs! (Australia)
2. Enjoy the refreshing Cholera-infested waters! (Kenya)
3. Sleep with the fishes and enjoy eternal peace (Sicily)
4. Come to a stoning- it isn't just for locals any more! (Saudi Arabia)
5. Enjoy a one week, no-frills barefoot cruise and obtain instant wealth (pirates of Somalia)
6. Come watch nationalization happen before your very eyes (Venezuela- sorry, no USA credit cards please)
7. Support the "2009 Freedom Swim to Miami" (Haiti)
8. Come visit the Holy Land now before Iran turns it into glass. (Israel)
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mexipep
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Does anyone know if there are decent hotels and pubs anywhere near this new 'tourist spot' I am planning a trip down this year and after running the
deathrace 2000 through TJ and Rosarito I thought a little culture to give me a taste of recent Mexico history and culture would be in order.
Anyone?
Ban all fishing to non Mexicans.
Conservation has to start somewhere.
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When the press describes a politician as eccentric, you can take it from there. The idea is idiotic. But, although I know the post wasn't about it, I
am still curious regarding the reference, at this late date, that the flu may have started outside of Mexico. Maybe, we'll find out. Maybe not.
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mexipep
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It would seem reasonable to me that where the flu started is of no real importance except in the instance of where a certain country is once again
trying to hinder its culpability as per the flu in question.
You follow.
Ban all fishing to non Mexicans.
Conservation has to start somewhere.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
... I am still curious regarding the reference, at this late date, that the flu may have started outside of Mexico. Maybe, we'll find out. Maybe not.
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http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&am...
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/06/swine.flu.origins/
and, of course...
Obama Did It
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Woooosh
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I was waiting for the Obama connection. It did seem co-incidental to his visit to Mexico City. So will Mexico still claim the H1N1 for tourism
reasons? It'd be a shame to "export" the boy and his statue and loose all those pesos. Or will Mexico claim it had the H1N1 stolen from it?!
woooosh-note: People who claim I am critical of all things Mexican have to stop providing the material. Just wait until George Lopez hears about
this- he was already calling himself and his fellow Mexicans "carriers"- now he has a place for the "carrier pigeons to roost.
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Levity helps in most situations. What astounds me is that considering the worldwide reaction to this thing, from virtually locking down cities,
banning travel, slaughtering hundred of thousands of pigs, the latest figures show 92 deaths worldwide. Incredible reaction. More people probably
slipped, fell and killed themselves in their own bath tub yesterday.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
Levity helps in most situations. What astounds me is that considering the worldwide reaction to this thing, from virtually locking down cities,
banning travel, slaughtering hundred of thousands of pigs, the latest figures show 92 deaths worldwide. Incredible reaction. More people probably
slipped, fell and killed themselves in their own bath tub yesterday. |
That just might be true. "According to the National Safety Council, one person dies everyday from using bathtub/shower in the United States."
Worldwide, who knows?
\"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.\" -- Frank Zappa
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Woooosh
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DanO
| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
Levity helps in most situations. What astounds me is that considering the worldwide reaction to this thing, from virtually locking down cities,
banning travel, slaughtering hundred of thousands of pigs, the latest figures show 92 deaths worldwide. Incredible reaction. More people probably
slipped, fell and killed themselves in their own bath tub yesterday. |
That just might be true. "According to the National Safety Council, one person dies everyday from using bathtub/shower in the United States."
Worldwide, who knows? |
I think on one person in six worldwide even has access to a bath/shower.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Woooosh
I think only one person in six worldwide even has access to a bath/shower. |
Every person in France has both. They just refuse to use them.
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Alright (and because I want that damn turtle bust thread OFF of the front page DENNIS et al.), let's do some math. I will assume, conservatively,
that 5 out of 6 people in the US (population 307 million) has access to a bath and/or shower, i.e., roughly 256 million. One of them has a fatal
accident per day.
Applying Wooosh's one in six ratio to the world population of 6.782 billion means that worldwide, 1.130 billion people have bathtubs and/or showers.
Applying the 1 death in 256 million bathers per day ratio to the world population of bathers less the U.S. population of bathers (there are about 874
million non U.S. bathers if Wooosh's hypothesis is correct) leads to the conclusion that slightly more than 3.4 people per day outside the U.S. lose
their lives to a bathtub or shower per day, for a worldwide total of just over 4.4 deaths per day. A far cry from 92, indeed. I stand corrected.
\"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.\" -- Frank Zappa
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DanO
Alright (and because I want that damn turtle bust thread OFF of the front page DENNIS et al |
The thread morphed. It's no longer about turtles or anything like that. Now, it's a garbage pail thread, a place where lost souls can gather and
say anything about anything. This site and all others should have a garbage pail where folks can put their garbage in safe keeping and talk about it.
Garbage has value and should be respected. I respect garbage as everybody here should know. After all...I've offered to share my garbage over 7000
times here on Nomad. I'm a generous guy.
Thank You.
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Woooosh
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DanO
Alright (and because I want that damn turtle bust thread OFF of the front page DENNIS et al.), let's do some math. I will assume, conservatively,
that 5 out of 6 people in the US (population 307 million) has access to a bath and/or shower, i.e., roughly 256 million. One of them has a fatal
accident per day.
Applying Wooosh's one in six ratio to the world population of 6.782 billion means that worldwide, 1.130 billion people have bathtubs and/or showers.
Applying the 1 death in 256 million bathers per day ratio to the world population of bathers less the U.S. population of bathers (there are about 874
million non U.S. bathers if Wooosh's hypothesis is correct) leads to the conclusion that slightly more than 3.4 people per day outside the U.S. lose
their lives to a bathtub or shower per day, for a worldwide total of just over 4.4 deaths per day. A far cry from 92, indeed. I stand corrected.
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Turtles huh? hmmm. ok.
I used the 1 in 6 number because that is the worldwide guestimate of people worldwide that have access to clean running water. It doesn't mean they
can flush it or stand under it. It doesn't mean they have nice tiled bathrooms and tubs to slip, fall and die in. So the number goes still lower.
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One man's trash may well be another man's treasure, but everybody's got to empty their recycle bin once in awhile.
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mexipep
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Garbage
Why would anyone be bothered with a bunch of posts to have to go away and steam over it. Seems like one has way too much time on their hands and not
enough electronic activity in the attic.
Ban all fishing to non Mexicans.
Conservation has to start somewhere.
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